Rethinking media coverage : vertical mediation and the war on terror / Lisa Parks.
In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisua...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018. Ã2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rethinking Media Coverage; Vertical Mediation; Cultural Atmospherics; Concept Sketching; 1 Airing: US Television's Vertical Turns; Vertical Views in TV News; Machismo in the Mountains; Walking on Maps; Feminist Verticality; Aerial Broadcasting and Leafleting: US Military PSY-OPS; US Bombing of Al Jazeera; 2 Searching: Screening Practices at US Airport Security Checkpoints; Checkpoint Labor; Close Sensing; The X-Ray Belt; 3 Monitoring: Geospatial Imagery and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Reading Satellite Images Like a State; The Microphysics of Geospatial Images; From Shutter Control to Google Earth; Mediascaping; Resource Speculation; Monitoring Reconstruction; Predictive Analytics; 4 Targeting: Mediating US Drone Wars; War Theater One: Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan; Drone Attack Photos; Aerial Assault Videos; Drone Protest Media; War Theater Two: The Horn of Africa Region; Views of Drone Infrastructure; Infrared Imagery; Drone Crash Scenes; Epilogue; Index